Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Holman Bible
Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
International Standard Version
Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.
A Conservative Version
Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.
American Standard Version
Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
Amplified
Brothers and sisters, do not be children [immature, childlike] in your thinking; be infants in [matters of] evil [completely innocent and inexperienced], but in your minds be mature [adults].
An Understandable Version
Brothers, do not be children in the way you think, but be babies in wrongdoing; yet be mature in your thinking.
Anderson New Testament
Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.
Bible in Basic English
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
Common New Testament
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men.
Darby Translation
Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.
Godbey New Testament
Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.
Goodspeed New Testament
Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.
John Wesley New Testament
Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men.
Julia Smith Translation
Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.
King James 2000
Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.
Modern King James verseion
Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Brethren, be not children in wit. Howbeit, as concerning maliciousness be children: but in wit be perfect.
Moffatt New Testament
Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.
Montgomery New Testament
Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.
New Heart English Bible
Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Noyes New Testament
Brethren, do not become children in understanding; yet in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
Sawyer New Testament
Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.
The Emphasized Bible
Brethren! do not become children, in your understandings; but, in baseness, become babes, while, in your understandings, ye become, full-grown.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.
Webster
Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Weymouth New Testament
Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years.
Williams New Testament
Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.
World English Bible
Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Worrell New Testament
Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.
Worsley New Testament
My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.
Youngs Literal Translation
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
Themes
spiritual Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Maturity, spiritual » By cultivating the understanding
Prophecy and prophets » Prophesying vs. Tongues
Righteous » Compared with » Little children
compared to Saints » Little children
Simplicity » Childlikeness an essential element in the Christian life
Simplicity » Should be exhibited » Concerning malice
Spiritual » Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Topics
Interlinear
Ginomai
γίνομαι
Ginomai
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531
me
Alla
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 14:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues
19 but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 21 It is written in the law: "By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me," says the Lord.
Cross References
Romans 16:19
Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
Psalm 119:99
I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.
Matthew 18:3
and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
Hebrews 5:12-13
For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
1 Corinthians 2:6
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
Psalm 131:1-2
A song of ascents, by David. O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me.
Isaiah 11:3
He will take delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.
Matthew 19:4
He answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
Mark 10:15
I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
Ephesians 4:14-15
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
Philippians 1:9
And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight
Philippians 3:15
Therefore let those of us who are "perfect" embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.